SEC Employees Investigated for Surfing Porn Sites at Work
The Securities and Exchange Commission has investigated more than two dozen employees and contractors caught viewing pornography on their government computers, including one regional supervisor who admitted his viewing habits were a “kind of distraction per se.”
The Washington Times wrote about the porn problem after getting information about the SEC investigations through a Freedom of Information request. The SEC did not reveal the names of the employees investigated.
The computer of the distracted regional supervisor generated showed more than 1,800 attempts to access pornography in a 17-day span, the story says. The government’s pornography-blocking system had denied access and generated the “access denial” reports. The supervisor said he had still managed to access porn up to twice a day, and it had probably been going on a long time.
Another employee was suspended for three days after records showed 406 access denials for pornographic sites from February to April last year.
SEC spokesman John Nester told Washington Times that the “access denial” number can be misleading, since a single click on one website that is not itself blocked may trigger dozens of “access denials” for displayed ads or Web pages.
Hat tip to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog.
